Nature Quotes
A father is a banker provided by nature.French Prove
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - They are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.Henri - Frederic Amiel
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A man is related to all nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.Archibald Alexande
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.Aristotle, Politics
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.Maitri Upanishads
There is no place in nature for extinction.Licretius
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.Horace
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.Henry David Thoreau
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Nikita Khrushchev
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.Jacob Brownowski
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Dick Gregory
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.William Wordsworth
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.Cicero
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
